Athira Rajeev <atraj...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> In Power9, L2/L3 bus events are always available as a
> "bank" of 4 events. To obtain the counts for any of the
> l2/l3 bus events in a given bank, the user will have to
> program PMC4 with corresponding l2/l3 bus event for that
> bank.
>
> Commit 59029136d750 ("powerpc/perf: Add constraints for power9 l2/l3 bus
> events")
> enforced this rule in Power9. But this is not valid for
> Power10, since in Power10 Monitor Mode Control Register2
> (MMCR2) has bits to configure l2/l3 event bits. Hence remove
> this PMC4 constraint check from power10.
>
> Since the l2/l3 bits in MMCR2 are not per-pmc, patch handles
> group constrints checks for l2/l3 bits in MMCR2.
> Patch also updates constraints for threshold events in power10.
That should be done in a separate patch please.
cheers
